You are worried. You are scared. You are overwhelmed. But you need to know two very important things. First of all, you can do this! Yes, you. This new life of counting carbs, keeping records, injections, infusions, finger pokes, pharmacy trips, calls to insurance. You can do it. You’ll surprise yourself with how quickly you’ll […]
People can LIVE with type 1 diabetes, but they have to know they have it! That diagnosis is life-saving. It’s crushing…it’s heart-breaking…it’s a blow that’ll drop you to your knees. But it also saves a life. At the time of diagnosis, a person with type 1 diabetes is in a state of hyperglycemia. Too much […]
Since Mackenna’s pancreas isn’t doing its job of balancing carbs and insulin (read more about that here), we need to constantly monitor how much sugar is in her blood. This helps us know whether she needs more carbs, more insulin, or neither. Our main method of monitoring is through finger pokes. A person with type 1 […]
President Obama recently referenced diabetes when trying to make a point about something completely unrelated to the disease. “If you go to 100 doctors, and 99 of them tell you have diabetes, you wouldn’t say, ‘Ah, that’s a conspiracy. All 99 doctors got together with Obama to keep me from having bacon and donuts,’” he […]
What is type 1 diabetes? How did she get it? Those are some other great questions I get. They are big questions, with big answers…but I’m going to give them a shot. You have a pancreas. So does Mackenna. When you eat or drink anything with carbohydrates, your body turns those carbs into sugar and […]
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